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Maryland Cadavers and the Mummy Road Show 8Eleven pieces of Maryland’s Burns Collection of Anatomical Specimens are now traveling the country, part of a museum exhibit entitled Mummies of the World II, presented by American Exhibitions, Inc. The 200-year-old collection remains one of the most valuable scientific artifacts of its kind, and the story of how it arrived at Maryland is almost as precious as the collection itself. On the cover: The opening of the Burns Exhibit in Buffalo. Photo courtesy of Onion Studio

The 139th Medical Alumni Reunion 17This year, classes ending in “4” and “9” returned to campus for two days of celebration May 2 & 3. Participants toured the hospital and medical school, honored colleagues at an awards luncheon, enjoyed another historical clinicopatho-logical conference, joined classmates for a private party, and dressed up for a black-tie gala celebration at the Baltimore Convention Center.

Alumna Profile: Kathryn F. Swanson (Skitarelic), ’69 24 Woman in the Driver’s SeatKay Swanson had a lot in common with her father. She followed him to Maryland, enrolling in 1965 as one of just 14 female students—a record at the time. Then she chose his profession—pathology. They also shared a passion for driving fast cars. She bought her first Porsche 911 in 1997 and at the top of her list of hobbies is performance track driving.

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Bulletin Editorial Board

Joseph S. McLaughlin, ’56ChairmanRoy Bands, ’84Frank M. Calia, MD, MACPProtagoras N. Cutchis, ’83 Brian DeFilippisNeda Frayha, ’06Stacy D. Garrett-Ray, ’00 Christopher HardwickJeffrey Todd Hobelmann, ’03 Ronald D. Jacobs, ’82 Harry C. Knipp, ’76Morton D. Kramer, ’55Morton M. Krieger, ’52Brad D. Lerner, ’84 Brett Levinson, ’02Jennifer LitchmanPhilip Mackowiak, ’70Zaineb Makhzoumi, ’08 Stanford Malinow, ’68Robert M. Phillips, ’82 Larry PitrofGary D. Plotnick, ’66Ernesto Rivera, ’66Jerome Ross, ’60Julie Wu

Medical Alumni AssociationBoard of Directors

George M. Boyer, ’83PresidentAlan R. Malouf, ’85President-ElectElizabeth L. Tso, ’79Vice PresidentDonna S. Hanes, ’92 TreasurerGary D. Plotnick, ’66Secretary

Neda Frayha, ’06Stacy D. Garrett-Ray, ’00Jeffrey Todd Hobelmann, ’03Ronald D. Jacobs, ’82Brad D. Lerner, ’84Brett Levinson, ’02Zaineb Makhzoumi, ’08Stanford Malinow, ’68Robert M. Phillips, ’82Directors

Richard Keller, ’58Robert R. Rosen, ’49Honorary Regional Vice Presidents

Protagoras N. Cutchis, ’83Nelson H. Goldberg, ’73Ariana Khaladj-Ghom, ’15Dr. E. Albert Reece, Dean Ex-Officio

Larry PitrofExecutive Director

University of Maryland School of MedicineBoard of Visitors

Michael E. Cryor ChairPeter G. Angelos, Esq. Kenneth BanksMorton D. Bogdonoff, MDJocelyn Cheryl BrambleTamara Burgunder, ’00Frank C. Carlucci, IIIWilliam M. Davidow, Jr., Esq. Robert C. Embry, Jr. Robert E. Fischell, ScDNelson H. Goldberg, ’73Michael Greenebaum Stewart J. GreenebaumJeffrey L. HargraveJohn R. KellyHarry C. Knipp, ’76 Patrick McCuanCarolyn McGuire-Frenkil Edward Magruder Passano, Jr.Timothy J. ReganTimothy Ryan Melvin Sharoky, ’76Richard L. Taylor, ’75

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E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBAVice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, School of Medicine

he growth we have experienced as an academic medical institution over just the last decade has been truly outstanding. Our alumni have witnessed this extraordinary evolution with tremendous ex-citement, and we greatly benefit from their enthusiasm and active support of our vibrant community. Alumni are deeply committed to its continued success, which is evident during every spring reunion. Whether through their participation in the annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference, or their fellowship at the class par-ties, our alumni’s engagement contributes to the school’s success.

This year’s reunion again coincided with the School of Medicine Gala. Joining these two events gives current medical school fac-ulty, students, trainees and staff an opportunity to showcase their remarkable work to some of our most important stakeholders: our graduates and their families. The theme of this year’s Gala was “Designers of Innovation and Discovery,” and the faculty highlighted during the evening truly embodied this theme. Among the many accomplished individuals featured was Scott Strome, MD, whose reputation as an expert in head and neck surgery motivates patients from across the country to come to the University of Maryland to seek medical care. Another distinguished physician-scientist showcased was Bartley Griffith, MD, whose cutting-edge work to further modify and refine his mechanical lung has the potential to measurably improve the outcomes and wellbeing of patients with end-stage lung disease. I heard from several alumni that the combined reunion and gala was “the party of the year,” and strongly encourage everyone to attend next year’s event.

It must seem astounding to many of our alumni, especially those from the earlier classes, that a public medical school in a small east coast city has progressed to having such regional, national and internation-al renown. The far-reaching impact that alumni demonstrate has been evident for many years. Students come to the University of Maryland from across the country and practice in all 50 states. In addition,

we have active research and medical service in 34 countries across the world. These include multiple nations in Africa, where the school’s institute for human virology, led by Robert Gallo, MD, has made tremendous efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, and in Southeast Asia, where faculty from our center for vaccine development, led by Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, have worked relentlessly to reduce the burden of infectious diseases endemic to these areas.

This year, the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s national reputation will expand beyond

being known for excellence in medical education and exceptional biomedical research, to becoming known for preserving part of our world history. As the cover story of this issue of the Medicine Bulletin describes, our Burns Collection of Anatomical Specimens was loaned to the “Mummies of the World II: the Exhibition,” and is touring the country over the next three years. The Burns Collection was brought to Maryland in 1820 by Granville Sharp Pattison, who served as a professor and chair of surgery and later dean. In addition, a mummy preserved by Ronald Wade, who is on the medical school staff as director of the Maryland State Anatomy Board, will be on display with the traveling exhibition.

Our medical school continues to advance and improve in educational pursuits, research goals, and outstanding clinical care, and I thank all of you for your continued support of our endeavors.

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It must seem astounding to many of our alumni, especially those from the earlier classes, that a public medical school in a small east coast city has progressed to having such regional, national and international renown.

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Lozano is 17th Henderson Lecturer EVEnTS

Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, professor and chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, was the 17th Henderson Lecturer, sponsored by the department of neu-rosurgery. Lozano is best known for his work in deep brain stimulation (DBS), and his lecture was entitled “Adjusting the Activity of Dysfunctional Brain Circuits with DBS.” The event was held for faculty, fellows, residents, students, and neurosurgeons in and around Baltimore in the John M. Dennis Auditorium of the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. The event honors the late Charles Henderson, ’57, a popu-lar and dynamic Baltimore neurosurgeon.

Cataract Expert is Malouf Lecturer EVEnTS

The second annual Malouf Lectureship in Ophthalmology featured David F. Chang, MD, clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco. A renowned cataract expert, Chang presented an update on intraoperative floppy iris syndrome. The event was held on May 19 in Davidge Hall with several members of the Malouf family in attendance.

Marc Malouf, MD, David F. Chang, MD, Alan Malouf, ’85, ophthalmology professor and chairman Bennie H. Jeng, MD, and George Malouf Jr., ’79

Howard M. Eisenberg, MD, professor and the Raymond K. Thompson, MD, Chair in Surgery, with Henderson Lecturer Andres Lozano, MD, PhD

he University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering in College Park have initiated a com-bined doctor of medicine/doctor of philosophy in bioengineering degree program to meet the demand for both medical sciences and bioengineering exper-tise among health professionals.

This new offering is part of the University of Maryland MPowering the State initiative, designed to enhance collaboration between the two campuses by focusing their collective expertise on critical statewide issues of public health, law, biomedical informatics, and bioengineering. The goal of the dual degree program is to educate physician scientists in engineering principles and scientific methods in order to develop knowledge and products promoting human health.

Medical School & College Park Offer Combined MD/PhD in Bioengineering

Students enrolled in the MD/PhD program will begin the PhD program after two years of medical school and part one of the national licensure exam. During the sum-mers before and after their second year of medical school, they will explore opportunities in laboratories affiliated with the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the Clark School of Engineering in College Park. In their third year, they will matriculate to the Clark School to complete two to three laboratory rotations, required course work, dissertation research and defense, and a semester-long teaching assistantship.

Upon successful completion of the doctoral defense, students will return to Baltimore to complete clinical rota-tions and part two of the licensure exam.

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CErVICAL CAnCEr rATES in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65- to 69-year-old women and African-American women, according to a study led by a Maryland research-er published in the journal Cancer. Current U.S. cervical cancer screening guidelines do not recommend routine Pap smears for women over 65 if their prior test results have been normal.

Previous research finds an age-standardized rate of about 12 cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women in the United States, with the incidence reaching a peak at age 40–44 and then leveling off. How-ever, these estimates included women who had hysterectomies in which the lower part of the uterus, the cervix, was removed. By excluding these women, who are no longer at risk of de-veloping this cancer, from their analysis, the researchers cal-culated a rate of 18.6 cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women. They found the incidence increased steadily with age and peaked at a higher rate and at an older age, specifically in women 65–69 years old.

“The higher rates of cervical cancer after correction for hysterectomy highlight the fact that, although a large proportion of cervical cancer has been prevented through early detection and treatment, it remains a significant problem,” the authors conclude. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause virtually all cervical cancers, and the researchers stress the need for widespread HPV vac-cination to protect women against the virus.

The incidence of cervical cancer for women ages 65–69 was 27.4 cases per 100,000 women, 84 percent higher than the uncorrected rate of 14.8 cases per 100,000 wom-en. Among white women ages 65–69, the rate was 24.7 cases per 100,000, compared with an uncorrected rate of 13.5 cases per 100,000. The rate for African-American women ages 65–69 was 53 cases per 100,000, compared with an uncorrected rate of 23.5 cases per 100,000. In fact, African-American women had higher cancer rates

at nearly all ages compared with white women, and the disparity was more pronounced at older ages, likely attrib-utable to African-American women reporting a higher prevalence of hysterectomy than white women.

“Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical can-cer,” says the study’s lead author, Anne F. Rositch, PhD, MSPH, a Maryland assistant professor of epidemiology and public health and a researcher at the University of

Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center. “It will be important to consider these findings when reevaluating risk and screening guidelines for cervical cancer in older women and the question of an appropriate age to stop screening.”

Patti E. Gravitt, PhD, a professor in the department of pathol-ogy at the University of new Mexico Health Sciences Center, is the senior author.

The researchers say that failing to correct for hyster-ectomies not only underestimates the true incidence of cervical cancer but also results in misleading race and age-specific comparisons.

rositch adds, “It will be important to clarify in future studies whether the continued increase in cervical cancer rates with age and the higher rates in African-American women represent a failure in our screening programs or a failure of the women to be screened; so that appropriate interventions can be applied.”

The researchers analyzed data on cervical cancer from 2000 to 2009 from 18 registries within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End results program of the national Cancer Institute, part of the national Institutes of Health. The data in the 18 registries represents approxi-mately 28 percent of the U.S. population. The research-ers generated estimates of hysterectomy prevalence from the Behavioral risk Factor Surveillance System, a house-hold survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. Cervical Cancer Rates Higher Than Reported

African-American women had higher cancer rates at nearly all ages compared with white women, and the disparity was more pronounced at older ages, likely attributable to African-American women reporting a higher prevalence of hysterectomy than white women.


Study co-author Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, the John L. Whitehurst Endowed Professor of Medicine, associate dean for personalized medicine and director of the pro-gram for personalized and genomic medicine, and his col-leagues at Maryland have previously identified a number of susceptibility genes for diabetes as well as for obesity,

high blood pressure and other complex diseases. In 2008, they discovered a novel gene mutation among the Old Order Amish population that signifi-cantly reduces the level of triglycerides in the blood and appears to help prevent cardiovascular disease. In 2010, they discovered a common gene variant that predicts efficacy of the common anti-platelet medication, clopidogrel (Plavix®). Shuldiner’s team has been conducting genetic research with the Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania since the early 1990s.

The Old Order Amish are ideal for genetic studies because they are a genetically homogenous population who trace their ancestry back 14 generations to a small group who came to Pennsylvania from Europe in the mid-1700s.

This study was supported by grants from the national Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the University of Maryland Multidisciplinary Clinical Career Development Program, the Mid-Atlantic nutri-tion and Obesity research Center, the Baltimore Diabe-tes research Center, the American Diabetes Association, the U.S. Department of Agriculture national Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the Geriatric research Educa-tion and Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

aryland researchers have identified a mutation in a fat-storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online May 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The researchers discovered the mutation in the hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) gene by studying the DnA of more than 2,700 people in the Old Order

Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa. HSL is a key enzyme involved in breaking down triglycerides into fatty acids, thereby releasing energy for use by other cells.

“We found that Amish people with this mutation have defects in fat storage, increased fat in the liver, high triglycerides, low “good” (HDL) cholesterol, insulin resis-tance and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,” says the study’s senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of en-

docrinology, diabetes and nutrition and member of the program for personalized and genomic medicine at the school.

In this study, 5.1 percent of the Old Order Amish participants had at least one copy of the mutation. Four people had two copies of the mutation and consequently produced no HSL enzyme, Damcott notes. The mutation is less common in non-Amish Caucasians of European descent (0.2%), thus the higher prevalence of the mutation in the Amish makes it possible to charac-terize its full range of effects.

“Future studies of this gene will allow us to look more closely at the effects of its deficiency on human metabo-lism to better understand the function of the HSL protein and its impact on fat and glucose metabolism,” Damcott says. “These studies will also examine the potential of using HSL as a drug target for treating type 2 diabetes and related complications.”

She notes that type 2 diabetes is a complex disease whose susceptibility is often determined by interactions between genetics and lifestyle factors, such as overeating and physical inactivity. Susceptibility genes for diabetes may be involved in several different metabolic pathways in the body, including storage and release of fat for energy. “Discovery of this mutation adds to the growing list of insights gained from genomic studies that can be used to develop new treatments and customize existing treat-ments for type 2 diabetes and related metabolic disorders,” Damcott says.

Gene Mutation Identified for Type 2 Diabetes

Alan R. Shuldiner, MDColeen M. Damcott, PhD

M5.1% of the Old Order Amish study participants had at least one copy of the mutation.

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John Stephen Dumler, ’85, has returned to Maryland as professor in the department of pathology. An expert pathologist and infectious disease specialist, Dumler had been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and in 2003 was promoted to professor in the departments of pathology and molecular microbiology & immunology. He brings with him more than $1 million in current grant funding from nIH. Dumler has published more than 200 papers and serves as reviewer for numerous journals, including the Journal of Immunology, American Journal of Pathology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Diana H. Fishbein, PhD, was named director of the new center for translational research on adversity, neurodevelopment and substance abuse. A leading behavioral neuroscience expert, Fishbein comes to Maryland from research Trial Institute International in north Carolina where she served as program director and senior fellow for the transdisciplinary science and translational prevention program. She is leading a group of clinical and basic scientists who share a common interest in translational neuroscience research to improve the lives of those suffering from sleep disorders, drug abuse and other related diseases.

James B. Kaper, PhD, was appointed senior associate dean for academic affairs. An accomplished scientist and scholar, Kaper holds the title of professor and chair of the department of microbiology & immunology, and associate director for bacterial pathogenesis research at the school’s center for vaccine

development. He replaces Richard N. Pierson III, MD, who had been the senior associate dean for academic affairs and the interim director of research affairs since 2012. Pierson, a cardio-thoracic surgeon and researcher, is now serving as professor and senior associate chair of research in the department of surgery.

Nancy R. Lowitt, MD, EdM, is the new chief conflict of interest officer. An expert in professional standards of conduct and medical education, Lowitt will lead compliance and awareness programs to maintain the school’s high ratings in professional ethics. Since 1988, she has served as associate dean

for faculty affairs and professional development. Lowitt is an assistant professor of medicine and teaches internal medicine and medical education to medical students, residents, graduate students and faculty.

Steven C. Ludwig, MD, has been appointed to head the new division of spine surgery in the department of orthopaedics. Ludwig is a professor of orthopaedics at Maryland who oversees spinal surgery at the medical center, Shock Trauma, the Baltimore VA Medical Center and University of Maryland rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute. In his new role, he will bring together a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team approach in both conducting research and providing medical care for patients with spinal disorders.

Terry B. Rogers, PhD, was named executive director for the office of research affairs. A professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, rogers is the former director of the MD/PhD program at the school and has extensive experience in research and program management. He replaces Thomas Hooven, who retired

in June. In his new role, rogers is responsible for the activities and resources in the office of research affairs, and in this capacity coordinates school-wide research activities and supports faculty efforts in ongoing research programs and in the identification of funding resources for new projects.

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ermie,” has been a resident of his-toric Davidge Hall since 1960. No one knows where he came from, although there are many stories about his origin. Given a perma-nent home on the building’s third floor, Hermie is a human specimen preserved by a Maryland anatomy

professor. Placed in the hall for demonstra-tion, he contributed to the education of medical students for many years. Although students have long since moved to newer classrooms, Hermie remains a tenacious reminder of lessons to be learned from the past and from anatomical specimens pre-served from earlier cultures.

But there is an older, more valuable collection now making its way around the country. Eleven of the 60 specimens from Maryland’s prestigious Burns

Collection have become part of a three-year nationwide exhibition, Mummies of the World II, presented by American Exhibitions, Inc.

Heather Gill-Frerking, PhD, director of science and educa-tion development for American Exhibitions, says every mummy has a story to tell, and the Burns Collection provides spectators an oppor-

tunity to observe the evolution of disease through time. The story of how the Burns Collection came into

existence and found a home at the medical school is one that begins more than 200 years ago and contrasts medical talent and resourcefulness with crime, arrogance, dueling, and from a more distant perspective, even murder. The

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most prominent character in this narrative was Granville Sharp Pattison—anatomist, lecturer, surgeon, grave robber, duelist, and Maryland dean, whose extraordinary contribu-tions to the school were at odds with controversy and a confrontational and often scandalous personal history.

In the late 18th century, interest in biological science and anatomy was growing, and the best method for learn-ing how the body works and how it heals after surgery was dissection of newly deceased persons. Unfortunately, dissection was against the law, and so a new enterprise

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flourished among those who robbed graves and sold their bounty to medical schools. ronn Wade, director of the Maryland Anatomy Board, and director of the school’s anatomical services division, explains the climate that existed at that time.

“People were dying of unknown infectious diseases, such as TB,” he says. “The napoleonic wars were waging and governments tended to turn their heads about grave rob-bing because of the need for medical research. It’s probable that every anatomy professor at the time was indicted for

grave robbing, though I doubt many were convicted.”

Globally as well as in Europe, there was considerable difficulty in securing bodies needed for study by medical schools. Even Maryland’s co-founder, John Beale Davidge, MD, was the victim of mobs invading his property because of the mistaken belief he had hidden bodies. In the midst of this pervasive distrust of medical science, grave robbing became a rampant and profitable business. The most notorious among these entrepreneurs were William Burke and William Hare of Edinburgh, Scotland, who murdered 16 people in the early 19th century, selling the bodies for profit. Burke was hanged for his crimes, though Hare’s eventual fate is unknown.

Historically, Maryland schools had access to the body of any person buried at public

expense. Eventually, state law expanded that rule to include the availability of any unclaimed body. In England and elsewhere, only the bodies of the relatively few people executed for crime could be used, and so for hundreds of years, the progress of science was thwarted by the absence of legal access to a critical source of research. Until the relatively recent advent of laws whereby individuals can donate their bodies to science after death, the source of adequate numbers of body parts often has been difficult for medical schools.



The creator of Maryland’s mummies, Allan Burns, was a brilliant 18th century Glasgow anatomist interested in the cardiovascular system and blood circulation. He discov-ered a method for preservation of bodies, employing a salt and sugar cure process, which remains unknown today. His mummies show relationships and complexity of bone, organ, tissue fiber, muscle and nerve. To study blood supply from the heart, he injected water with chemicals such as mercury and arsenic. He then embalmed the bodies to preserve them. Burns opened a medical school, the highly regarded Andersonian Institute, with no support from the Scottish government, and was able to procure a continu-ing source of bodies. It was speculated that his mounting

collection may well have included some sold to him by Burke and Hare, and consequently are included among Maryland’s mummies.

Enter Granville Sharp Pattison, assistant and protégé to Burns. When Burns died at age 32, he bequeathed to Pattison the copy-rights of his works and to another protégé, Andrew russell, his complete collection of anatomical specimens, estimated to have included hundreds of mummies. russell sold the collection to Pattison and thus began a global journey of these historical medical treasures which ultimately reached their destination at the University of Maryland.

Although an exceptional anatomist, lecturer and surgeon, Pattison never earned a medical degree. He was a genius flawed by an uncompromising disposition and, in the opinion of many, a penchant for making trouble. As for his public persona, he was tried in Edinburgh for grave robbery, accused of unprofessional conduct, and named as co-respondent in a scandalous divorce proceeding involv-

ing the wife of a colleague. After leaving Scotland for Eng-land, he was dismissed as a troublemaker by the University of London, headed to Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, then to the University of Maryland, where he became chair of surgery and later dean. His years in the United States were marked by behavior not unlike that in Europe, including a duel in which he severely wounded the brother-in-law of a Philadelphia colleague.

nevertheless, Pattison’s personal charisma earned him many supporters. He was an ardent and successful defender of medical causes and, in his zealous pursuit of such inter-ests, gained a following of loyal colleagues and students. His tenure at Maryland was arguably his most successful, and certainly gained prominence for the university. The school had 70 students when Pattison arrived in 1820. As a result of his exceptional teaching methods, that number increased almost five-fold by the time he left in 1826. He was the founder of the Baltimore Infirmary for inpatients at the medical school, an historic achievement in medi-cal education. Until that time, lectures were the primary source of medical education in the United States. Students had little or no opportunity for involvement in direct patient care. The Burns Collection was still another asset that earned Pattison’s lasting impact on the school. At the time, it was considered the most extensive in the world, and in 1820, he sold it to the University for $7,800.

A museum building, known as Practice Hall, was constructed to house the collection, and the mummies remained there for some years. As the science of anatomy progressed, interest in the specimens faded. When ronn Wade first came to Maryland in 1974, the collection lined

a hallway in the Bressler Building. The specimens were no longer being used for teaching but had become a “sightseeing” interest among students and those visiting the

campus. Practice Hall had long been demolished and the collection had seemingly lost its “museum appeal.” It was strongly suggested to Wade that he dispose of the collection. An inherent interest in history and anatomy prevailed, perhaps motivated by Wade’s ninth grade sci-ence project in which he mummified a rat. He appealed to professor of surgery, George Yeager, ’29, for a solution.

“With Dr. Yeager’s help, the mummies were moved to the anatomy department in the Bressler Building and were under my care,” Wade says. He boxed and stored them away until 1992 when, deciding they probably required some restoration, he examined them, only to find they were still perfectly preserved.

In the midst of this pervasive distrust of medical science, grave robbing became a rampant and profitable business.

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artifacts trace the history of disease through time

Ronn Wade, center, with MAA executive director

Larry Pitrof, left, and American Egyptologist

Robert Brier, foreground, at the April opening of

Mummies of the World II exhibition in Buffalo, N.Y.


While it is believed that the Burns Col-lection originally included hundreds of specimens, several disappeared over the years. Inevitably, many never made it to Baltimore from Pattison’s various ports of call along the way. Of those in the university’s collec-tion, some were assumed stolen, although it’s unclear when any of the losses occurred. One possibility is that some disappeared during the Civil War when many students went south to

join the Confederacy. In 2006, a Michigan man advertised a mummified child for sale on eBay. It was confirmed by a University of Michigan anthropologist to be part of the Burns Collection. Although the man insisted he bought and paid for it, the courts decided otherwise. no one can own a dead body. And so, the mummy was rightfully returned to the school.

On another occasion, Wade received a call from an alumnus who said he thought he had found a mummy from the collection while clearing out a house that had be-longed to a great-uncle. Wade went to the home and they indeed found the specimen—a child wrapped and stored in a closet. As with the eBay specimen, it was tested and determined to be part of the Burns collection. How it got there remains a mystery.

The only specimen in the collection to bear even a hint of identity from an historical viewpoint, is a male who has a distinct color tattoo of the coat of arms of Pope Pius VII on the forearm, and the initials CGM, probably the initials of the deceased. The death occurred during the napoleonic Wars when the Pope had been imprisoned by napoleon. It also was during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scotland. Was the hapless man with the tattoo a defender of the Papacy? Was he a spy in defense of the Queen of Scotland? no one knows. A National Geographic article addressed these ques-tions several years ago and determined he was an Irishman who was in Scotland in the service of the queen.

The value of mummies to medicine today is not that much different from the purpose behind Allan Burns’ pursuit of a collection more than 200 years ago. Through-out centuries, mummies have been valuable in teaching anatomy, as well as in studying the progression of disease

through time. Milford M. Foxwell Jr., ’80, assistant profes-sor of medicine and associate dean of admissions, believes the Burns Collection today provides as many teaching moments as it did in past generations.

“Everything we ever learned about clinical medicine has come from studying autopsies,” he says. “There is incredi-ble benefit in being able to study these specimens and what they tell us of disease.”

Gill-Frerking talks of a family of three mummies from Hungary who died of tuberculosis, a disease that had rav-aged an entire town, causing numerous deaths. Through the preserved specimens of the family, doctors have been able to trace the evolution of the disease that continues to mark this particular community.

Providing another example, she says, “When you consider mummies from South America who had active lifestyles and high fiber-rich diets, and yet heart disease rates consistent with people today, it prompts medicine to reevaluate what we consider to be modern diseases.”

Foxwell points out that, at the time the specimens were preserved, biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology were not developed. All physicians had was anatomy. “It was the only door to medical education, and we are still learning from it,” he says.

He adds that many students today almost never see an autopsy. “Technology has made autopsies a past remnant of medical education” he says. “I tell my students pathology is the basis of medicine. These artifacts trace the history of disease through time, and provide valuable insights to today’s physician.”

Who were these specimens in 18th century Scotland? Husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, certainly. History reveals some likely were criminals, hanged for their crimes. Probably most walked through life unknown, oblivious of knowledge that they might have any interest to future gen-erations. And what of the man, Allan Burns, who without any formal education, pursued the science of anatomy with talents well beyond the age in which he lived? Such ques-tions provide reflection for those viewing Maryland’s Burns Collection exhibition in cities throughout the country during the next three years.

Photos courtesy of Onion Studio

The creator of Maryland’s mummies, Allan Burns, was a brilliant 18th century Glasgow anatomist

interested in the cardiovascular system and blood circulation. He discovered a method for preservation

of bodies, employing a salt and sugar cure process, which remains unknown today.

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cean City was a resort for Marylanders long before the era when high-rise condos would shade parts of its beach and hot-tempered debates would be held over the playing of loud rock

music along its boardwalk. A rail line had been completed nearly to the

high-tide line by 1881, and the town’s leaders obtained corporate status from the state around that same time. Even beach-seekers from outside of Maryland could then get to this breezy Atlantic shore spot in less than a day; and by the end of the 19th century, thousands of visitors were in the habit of riding rails and ferries to enjoy an Ocean City vacation every summer. What they could not get was sun protection in the sense that we have it now. Blistering burns were more the norm than they are in the 21st century, especially as bathing suits began to get skimpier. Sun-lovers often became patients within a single day of their arrival.

The lotions and potions for sunburn available when the 20th century began were numerous, yet their effective ingredients were few and had changed little over the previous fifty years. Apple cider vinegar was one old remedy—this writer’s grandmother was a fan of it—as were topical applications of baking soda or honey. Other possibilities included zinc compounds (best known as the active ingredients in calamine lotion) and anti-pruritic agents such as carbolic acid, or phenol, which thanks to Joseph Lister was by that time widely available. These remedies could help reduce pain and swelling after a burn, although a truly sun-protecting topical cream was not developed until the 1930s when compounds like benzyl

salicylate were first made available to the public. Among the chemists responsible for modern sun-

protection treatment was Eugene Schueller, founder of the L’Oreal cosmetics empire. Across the developed world there would be a close association from as far back as the World War I era between “beauty” products and sun protection. Maryland’s own distinctive contribution was

in the form of noxzema skin cream, first produced and marketed—if not from his own formula—by George Bunting, a University of Maryland School of Pharmacy graduate from 1899. Although the exact date and circumstance of the formula’s invention remain uncertain, by 1917 advertisements for

noxzema were regularly appearing in the Baltimore Sun, and the noxzema Chemical Company began to give its address as 1817 n. Charles Street. Its eponymous brand supposedly came from the comment of an early patient who reported that the cream had eradicated his eczema: “no eczema” became “noxzema.” Its distinctive cobalt blue packaging dates from early days of manufacture and distribution out of the Charles Street address, later from a larger facility in the Hampden neighborhood. noxzema remains one of the few items in a 21st-century pharmacy that can claim a continuous commercial presence in much the same form it has presented over the run of a hundred years.

Just what made noxzema effective? The product was not and still has not been subject to modern regulatory testing. Today it is sold as no more than an “original deep cleansing cream,” and its current manufacturer, Unilever, makes no other claims on its website or on the exterior of their still-blue 12-ounce tubs. next to noxzema along current pharmacy and grocery aisles shoppers can find nearly identical knock-off brands—also in blue tubes—that contain what appear to be identical ingredients, if not in exactly the same (proprietary) proportions that Bunting mixed: eucalyptus and linseed oils, phenol (i.e., carbolic), camphor, menthol, stearic acid and ammonium hydroxide

Medicina Memoriae

No Eczema

The lotions and potions for sunburn available when the 20th century began were numerous, yet their

effective ingredients were few…


are standouts on the labels. As soon as their tubs are opened, noxzema and its imitators continue to produce the aroma that many Bulletin readers may recall from childhood. The jars are today made from plastic rather than glass; noxzema’s own label currently carries a green leaf with the claim “45% less plastic.”

Although treatment of sunburn was part of Bunting’s initial promotion, his cream’s reputation for other healthful benefits, and lack of strict federal regulation, led the company to make various claims during its early years. As early as December 1917, an advertisement in the Sun asserted that noxzema “will stop the itching and fiery pain instantly” although the ad does not refer to specific sources for either itch or pain. It does say “your money back if it fails.” A Sun advertisement from May 1920 claims that the cream will cure “baby’s rash and other skin affections [sic].” The company’s usual tag line was “Feel it Heal,” which was also used in ads that ran in the Baltimore Afro-American. By the late 1920s, ad copy was going even further and asserting that the cream “positively prevents sunburn”—perhaps if one slathered it on heavily enough?

A typical price given in those early days was $1.00 for a “half lb. jar.” In inflation-adjusted terms, that works out to about 50% more per unit of volume than this writer paid in year 2014 for a 12-oz tub at his local chain pharmacy.

noxzema Chemical eventually became known as noxell Corporation, and local ownership ended in 1989. The initial buyer of noxell, which by then included the CoverGirl line of cosmetics, was Procter & Gamble; the price given was $1.4 billion. The Bunting family

would contribute substantially to local medical charities,

including Johns Hopkins Medicine. One of the latter’s

cancer research facilities still carries the Bunting name.

Bunting’s original product with its remarkable long life on

pharmacy shelves may not have been his formula in the first place. Various recent

accounts, if of uncertain documentation, have made the claim that it was really a

physician in Ocean City, Dr. Francis J. Townsend, who had developed the formula and then

given it to Bunting in the hope that a Baltimore-based pharmacist would promote wider distribution. If true, this claim parallels another great “give-away” from that same era in Baltimore, when Ira remsen, the founding professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins, would share in discovery of the world’s first artificial sweetener, saccharin. remsen then allowed his co-researcher, Constantin Fahlberg, to carry the saccharin formula with him to new York and then back to his native Germany where he would make a fortune from it. Most products and potions of a century ago are long forgotten, yet these two—saccharin and noxzema—not only remain but do so largely unchanged. Could there be some connection other than the fact both derive from old Baltimore?

Author Wayne Millan has been working behind the scenes of Maryland’s historical CPC for nearly two decades and currently teaches Classical Latin at the George Washington University.

Its eponymous brand supposedly came from the comment of an early patient who reported that the cream had eradicated his eczema: “no eczema” became “Noxzema.”


❖ Richard Eckert, PhD, the John F. B. Weaver Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been elected as president of the Association for Medical and

Graduate Biochemistry Departments for 2014–2015. The organization represents more than 210 departments at graduate and medi-cal schools in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Eckert was also appointed to chair the council of faculty and academic societies advocacy task force committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges. This group is tasked with formulating and helping guide AAMC policies on a host of medical school-relevant issues.

❖ Glenn Ostir, PhD, professor, depart-ment of epidemiology & public health, has been appointed as director of the program on aging, trauma, and emergency care, a joint venture with more than 40 participating faculty members from every school on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus, as well as faculty from the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

❖ E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean was elected to the Research!America Board of Directors.

❖ Stephen Bartlett, MD, the Peter G. Angelos Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, was recognized by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents with a 2014 faculty award. He was recognized by the regents in the scholarship/research/creative activity category for blazing

the trail for revolu-tionary transplant procedures. Under Bartlett, the division of transplantation has grown into one of the largest, busiest, and most compre-hensive transplant programs in the world.

❖ Carnell Cooper, MD, clinical associate professor, department of surgery, was named this year’s Homeland Hero by the Ameri-can Red Cross of the Chesapeake Region. The Homeland Hero award recognizes an individual within the public service sector who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to the mission and clients of the organization they serve. Through the violence intervention program at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Cooper helps victims of intentional violence and perpetrators of violence to make critical changes in their lives by providing a multidisciplinary support system that offers assessment, counseling, and social support.

❖ Robert Gallo, MD, director of the institute of human virology and the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distin-guished Professor in Medicine, was elected as a fellow of the American Asso-ciation for Cancer Re-

search (AACR) Academy. The AACR Academy serves to recognize and honor distinguished scientists whose major scientific contributions have propelled significant innovation and progress against cancer.

newsf ac lu t y❖ Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD, assistant professor, depart-ment of otorhinolar-yngology and head & neck surgery, won the 17th Burt Evans Young Investigator Award from the Na-tional Organization of Hearing Research.

The award is given in recognition of excellent achievements in auditory investigation, and to dedication and commitment to the pursuit of auditory genetics.

❖ Mikulas Popovic, MD, PhD, adjunct professor, institute of human virology and department of medicine, received the Czech Republic’s most prestigious scientific award from a private, non-profit organization, the “Ceska Hlava,” in close collaboration with the government of the Czech Republic, during a ceremony on November 17 in Prague. The Ceska Hlava honor is given to scientists who are, or were, a citizen of the former Czecho-slovakia, or Czech Republic, and have made a significant contribution to science abroad. Popovic was honored for his major contribu-tions to the field of human retrovirology and his contributions to the development of the HIV blood test.

❖ Robert Redfield, MD, associate director, institute of human virology, and professor, department of medicine, received the 2013 My Hero Award, pre-sented at the AID FOR AIDS Annual My Hero Gala in New York City. The My Hero Award honors people from the arts, business, public health, philanthrop-ic, and other communities who have made substantial contributions to the fight against HIV and AIDS. Redfield was recognized for his career in medical research and commitment to finding effective forms of treatment for people with HIV—including his work at IHV to ensure quality treatment for people in some of the poorest countries in the world.

Richard Eckert, PhD

Appointments

Robert Gallo, MD

Awards & Honors

Scott Salemme, Regional CEO of the American Red Cross of the Chesapeake Region; Carnell Cooper, MD; and award presenter Thomas Scalea, MD

Robert Redfield, MD, accepting award

Stephen Bartlett, MD Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD


❖ Larry Weiss, MD, JD, profes-sor, department of emergency medicine, was recipient of the 2014 David Wagner Award from the American Acad-emy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). This career award,

the most prestigious among AAEM’s honors, recognizes national leadership in emergency medicine. Weiss served as president of AAEM from 2008 to 2010.

❖ Richard Colgan, MD, professor, department of fam-ily and community medicine, presented an invited lecture to faculty and medical students at Kings College of Medicine, London, England, on May 16. It was

entitled “The Quest to Learn the Art of Medi-cine,” based on his recently released second edition book, Advice to the Healer: On the Art of Caring.

❖ Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, associate professor, department of emer-gency medicine, tes-tified in Washington before a subcommit-tee of the House of Representatives En-ergy and Commerce Committee. The purpose of the hear-ing was to explore the implications of

the nationwide shortage of psychiatric beds and of the boarding of psychiatric patients in emergency departments until appropriate beds become available. Hirshon presented

data from the 2014 National Report Card on Emergency Care, which was compiled by a task force that he chaired within the American College of Emergency Physicians.

❖ Sharon Stephan, PhD, associate professor, depart-ment of psychiatry, traveled to South Korea to provide training and guidance to leadership of the Korea Brain Research Institute and its newly established mental

health research center. Stephan worked with South Korean academic and political leader-ship to consider school-based approaches to addressing their increasing suicide rate among young people. Stephan also provided training on school-based trauma and bullying interventions to approximately 300 teachers, principals and school- and community-based mental health specialists.

❖ Andrea Tenner, MD, assistant profes-sor, department of emergency medi-cine, accompanied UMB assistant vice president for research and global health initiatives Marjorie Forster to Nigeria as school representative

to meet with the administration of the Uni-versity of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). UMB has an agreement to collaborate with UNN, as the in-stitution is interested in developing emergency care and starting an EM residency program. Tenner presented a lecture “When Seconds Count: Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Systems” to more than 200 people and led a

training session for approximately 50 on the fundamen-tals of triage and the emergency medicine primary survey.

❖ Scott Thompson, PhD, professor and chair, department of physiology; Elyse

Sullivan, PhD student, program in neuro-science; and Emma Rose, PhD, visiting assistant professor, department of psychiatry, were on Capitol Hill March 26 on behalf of the Society for Neuroscience, lobbying Congress on the need for increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The three met with healthcare and science policy staff-ers in the offices of both Maryland senators and Maryland representatives to describe their personal experiences with the drastic consequences of sequestration on the re-search enterprise and to make the case for a full restoration of funding for the two entities.

❖ Philip Mackowiak, ’70, clinical profes-sor, department of medicine and the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine Scholar, was co-author of a March 31 New York Times article “What Really Killed William Henry Harrison?”

❖ Robert Bloch, PhD, professor, department of physiology, received a new five-year, $1,688,500 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for his research on “Role

of Dysferlin In T-Tubules of Skeletal Muscle.”

❖ Britta Hahn, PhD, assistant professor, department of psychiatry, has been awarded

Larry Weiss, MD, JD

Events, Lectures & Workshops

Andrea Tenner, MD

Elyse Sullivan, Scott Thompson, PhD and Emma Rose, PhD

Richard Colgan, MD

Grants & Contracts*

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD

Books & Publications

Philip Mackowiak, ’70

Robert Bloch, PhD

Sharon Stephan, PhD


a five year, $2 million RO1 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Mechanisms Medi-ating the Attention-Enhancing Effects of Nicotinic Receptor Agents.”

❖ Kirsten Lyke, MD, associate professor, department of medicine and center for vaccine development, received a 15-month, $998,220 award from the EMMES Corporation for a collaborative study with the vaccine research center of the NIH for “A Phase 1, Open-Label Clinical Trial With Experimental Controlled Human Malaria Infection (CHMI) To Evaluate Safety and Dura-bility of Protection Following Intravenous and Intramuscular Administration of PfSPZ Vac-cine in Malaria-Naive Adults.” Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH, professor, department of medicine; and Andrea Berry, MD, assistant professor; Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, assistant professor; and Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, instructor, all from the department of pediatrics, are to be co-investigators on the trial noted above.

❖ Alexandre Medina de Jesus, DSci, associate pro-fessor, department of pediatrics, received a five-year, $1,630,938 award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for “Improving Neuronal Plasticity in a Mouse Model of FASD.”

❖ Daniel Morgan, MD, assistant pro-fessor, department of epidemiology and public health, received a four-year, $933,590 merit award from the VA for “Comparative

Safety and Effectiveness of Isolation in VHA Community Living Centers.”

❖ Sharon Stephan, PhD, associate profes-sor, department of psychiatry, was awarded

a four year, $1.3 million award from the Sub-stance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-ministration to provide technical assistance as part of the new National Resource Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention. Stephan and her colleagues at the center for school mental health in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry will provide support to Safe Schools-Healthy Students grantees across the United States.

❖ Kerri Thom, MD, assistant professor, de-partment of epidemiology and public health, was awarded a $996,839 grant from the CDC for “Post-Antibiotic Prescription Review By

Day 3 (PAR-3): A Multi-Site Study to Evaluate Impact on Antibiotic Use and Resistance.”

❖ Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, professor and director of the division of translational radiation sciences, department of radiation oncology, has been awarded $2,186,000 through a contract with Aeolus Pharmaceuti-cals, Inc., for a study on “Therapeutic Efficacy Screening of AEOL10150 In a Murine Model: Determining Duration, Timing, Natural History, and Mechanism of Action.”

*Grants & Contracts of $1 million and above

Britta Hahn, PhD

Daniel Morgan, MD

Alexandre Medina de Jesus, DSci

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Message from the MAA President

reunion 2014 139th Medical Alumni Reunion

2014–2015Medical Alumni BoardGeorge M. Boyer, ’83President

Alan R. Malouf, ’85President-Elect

Elizabeth Tso, ’70Vice President

Donna S. Hanes, ’92Treasurer

Gary D. Plotnick, ’66Secretary

Neda Frayha, ’06Stacy D. Garrett-Ray, ’00Jeffrey Todd Hobelmann, ’03Ronald D. Jacobs, ’82Brad D. Lerner, ’84Brett Levinson, ’02Zaineb Makhzoumi, ’08Stanford Malinow, ’68Robert M. Phillips, ’82Directors

The cover story for this issue is truly riveting. It’s amazing to think that our Burns Collection—an anatomical and pathological collection brought here in 1820 to teach medical students—continues to educate people nearly 200 years later as it tours the country. We invite you to view it over the next three years when the Mummies of the World Traveling Exhibit comes to a city near you.

The Burns Collection is part of the Medical Alumni Association Akiko K. Bowers Museum of Medical Artifacts on display in Davidge Hall. We are eternally grateful to Mrs. Bowers, who back in the 1990s saw the true potential for our collection. She established an endowment to preserve and perpetuate the holdings, as annual income flowing from the fund allows us to maintain first-class exhibits, commission portraits of our past deans, and upgrade audio equip-ment used in the halls and throughout the building. Our museum is all about Maryland and early medical education in America.

In many ways our Association is respon-sible for enriching the soul of the medical school. One can sense it while walking through Davidge Hall, reading our magazine, viewing online classroom lectures, and for the past 20 years attending our annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference.

These offerings are certain to increase. Thanks to the generosity of two supporters, we are now among only a handful of medical schools boasting a scholar-in-residence, as Philip A. Mackowiak, ’70, was invested last September as the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine Scholar.

These are exciting times for the Medical Alumni Association. I invite you to join us in our work for this great medical school.

George M. Boyer, ’83, is chief of the department of medicine at Mercy Medical Center and clinical asso-ciate professor of medicine at Maryland. He received residency training in internal medicine at Mercy followed by a fellowship at George Washington Uni-versity Associated Hospitals. He is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease. In addition to his service on the alumni board, Boyer is president of the Trustees of the Endowment of the University of Maryland, Inc., overseeing approximately $80 million in investments for the medical school.

George M. Boyer, ’83140th Drs. Ronald and Richard Taylor MAA President

Alumni, faculty, and friends are invited to send in their nominations for two MAA-sponsored awards by november 1, 2014. The Honor Award & Gold Key is presented to a living graduate for outstanding contributions to medicine and distinguished service to mankind. Factors considered in the selection process include impact of accomplishments, local, national, and international recognition, supporting letters, and publications. The Distinguished Service Award is presented for outstanding service to the Medical Alumni Association and University of Maryland School of Medicine. The awards are to be pre-sented during the annual reunion recognition Luncheon on Friday, May 1, 2015. Letters of nomination for both awards must include a curriculum vitae and should be addressed to:

Stanford Malinow, ’69, Chair, MAA Awards Committee, 522 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201-1636 or emailed to: [email protected]

Honor Award & Gold Key & MAA Service Award

C A L L S F O r 2015 Awards Nominations!


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The 139th Medical Alumni reunion featured the Harry & Vivian Kramer MAA Awards Luncheon & Business meeting at historic Westminster Hall on May 2. The Association honored Kristin Stueber, ’69, as recipient of the 2014 Honor Award & Gold Key, and Harry C. Knipp, ’76, received the 2014 Distinguished Service Award. The dean presented School of Medicine Leadership Awards to three graduates—Mark M. Applefeld, ’69, William B. Long III, ’68, and richard G. Shugarman, ’64, and members of the class of 1964 were honored on their golden anniversary. Leonard Bachman, ’49, was recognized as the most senior graduate attending reunion, as he celebrated his 65th graduation anniversary.

Five Graduates, Class of ’64 Honored at Awards Luncheon

Clockwise from top right: Kristin Stueber, ’69, recipient of the 2014 Honor Award & Gold Key ❖ Dean E. Albert Reece presents Richard G. Shugarman, ’64, with a School of Medicine Leadership Award ❖ Mary Watson and Leonard Bachman, ’49 ❖ Celeste Woodward, ’72, with Leadership Award recipient and husband Mark M. Applefeld, ’69 ❖ Harry C. Knipp, ’76, receives his service award from MAA president Protagoras N. Cutchis, ’83

Photos by Richard Lippenholz


he illness and end of life issues surrounding the death of Eleanor roosevelt—one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century—were the topic of discussion at the 2014 Annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference on May 2. Established in

1995, the conference evaluates mysterious illnesses and deaths of historical figures including Edgar Allan Poe, King Herod, and Akhenaten, among others.

Known as an avid supporter of civil liberties and the assertion of the rights of women, roosevelt developed a reputation as a tireless worker who was rarely ill. Her attending physician at the time of her death, A. David Gurewitsch, MD, gave a diagnosis of aplastic anemia and conducted test upon test, driving the First Lady to beg for a hastened end to her life. Experts reevaluated her diagnosis due to the wide range of symptoms she exhibited and her generally excellent health, while also reviewing and considering the end of life and right to die issues that surrounded the final period of her life.

“Eleanor roosevelt was a remarkable subject for this conference in terms of the striking differences between how medicine was practiced at the time of her death compared with today,” said Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, the Kilbride-Clinton Profes-sor of Medicine and Ethics in the department of medicine and divinity school at the University of Chicago. He added: “In particular, there were significant bioethical and end-of-life issues in this case that were not considered or discussed at the time, and of course, there was no such thing as ’hospice care’ or ethics committees and the like. As we conducted this analysis, it was fascinating to see how the doctor-patient relationship has evolved over time. Indeed, studying Eleanor roosevelt and the cir-cumstances of her death is perhaps better understood from the vantage point of the present day than it would have been to do so in the period following her death.”

In 1999 the Gallup organization drew on more than six decades worth of public opinion data to rate FDr the sixth most admired person of the

previous hundred years, and Er—as she often signed letters to close friends and associates—the ninth.

“Unfortunately, Eleanor roosevelt’s role in history remains poorly understood, in good part because period scholarship has tended to downplay or overlook entirely the remarkable years of public service and achievement that followed her husband’s presidency,” said Christopher

Brick, MA, principal investigator of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a research center based at George Washington

University. “With concerted effort, however, the records that document this final phase of Eleanor roosevelt’s life and

career are coming to light, and as this year’s clinicopathological conference demon-strated, they bear great relevance not just to her time, but our own as well.”

The conference is organized by Philip A. Mackowiak, ’70, clinical professor of medicine and the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen Scholar-in-residence at Maryland. To obtain a DVD of this year’s conference, please refer to the ad on page 36. It is also available for viewing to dues-paying members of the Medical Alumni Association at medicalalumni.org.

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Class of 1954 at the Maryland Club

Reunion Class Parties

Class of 1959 at Baltimore Country Club

Class of 1964 at the Maryland Club Class of 1969 at the Maryland Club


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Class of 1979 at the Center Club



Class of 1994 at the home of Penny Brown & Ronald Silverman


reunion 2014 Reunion Class Parties…

Class of 1999 at Germano’s Piattini

Class of 2004 at Oregon Ridge Park

Class of 2009 at the Pratt Street Ale House

Albert F. Heck, ’58, with wife Marilyn

Third-year students Patrick Greenwell and Ariana Khalid-Ghom

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Class of 1999 at Germano’s Piattini

and Gala

Stan Malinow, ’68, and wife Rosalyn

Edgar McGinley, ’64, left, and Hal Standiford, ’64, right, enjoying the gala

More than 800 alumni, faculty & friends attended the event at the Baltimore Convention Center

Edward C. Werner, ’63, with wife Georgia

Above: David Zisow, ’74, and wife Marcie

At left: Edwin Mohler, ’69, with Kay Swanson, ’69, and husband Richard

LIKE MAnY PEOPLE, Kay Swanson (Skitarelic) ’69 has a hobby. When she tells people her favorite pastime is high performance driving, most can only react questioningly

and ask why. Swanson is prepared for the reaction. She answers candidly, “Well, I think we can all benefit from a hobby, and I don’t know how to knit.”

The recently retired West Virginia pathologist says her father, Benedict Skitarelic ’41, was an ardent sports car buff who was instrumental in bringing sports-car racing to Cumberland, Maryland in the 1950s. He instilled in Swanson an early fascination for cars, teaching her to drive late at night on winding, western Maryland roads when she was 11. His lessons made a lasting impression on the now Porsche 911 owner committed to performance track driving.

Swanson inherited professional family genes as well. A pathologist whose father and maternal aunt shared the same medical specialty, she was one of 14 women in her medical school class which boasted more women than any previous class. She recalls it was during the Vietnam War and some male classmates showed resentment toward the women, arguing they had friends who were drafted as a result of not being admitted to medical school, all because women had been accepted. “You learn to live with that sort of thing and move on,” she says.

What she remembers most vividly about her days at Maryland is the strength of the education. “We worked hard and no one was concerned about the hours in our day, as they are today” she says. “The result was that we were thoroughly ready to assume our roles in the medical profession. I remember the feeling that the school had given me what I needed to take on residency in my specialty. When I graduated, I felt prepared, and that was a good feeling.”

Swanson bought her first Porsche 911 in 1997 and thus began a commitment to the marque that has never wavered. Asked why, she replies quickly that it is a rear engine sports car that you can drive on a track as well as to the grocery store, and it is the most reliable high performance car.

From 2005 until her retirement in 2011, Swanson, who spent the majority of her career as a community hospital pathologist, was an assistant professor at West Virginia University. Following residency at Ohio State University, she was on the faculty of a consortium of community hospitals in southern Ohio, where she had occasion to confront the AIDS crisis in a personal way. It was during the early 1980s when the seriousness of the epidemic began to reach communities in rural America. Denial that it might affect young people in local schools masked the real facts behind the trauma of AIDS. People reasoned that if it did happen in their town, it would only affect the gay population. Swanson was chair of the infection control committee at her hospital when an AIDS patient died.

“The staff became very uneasy,” she recalls of that time. “Suddenly, everyone became fearful of a threat they had previously denied. Swanson talked with a physician’s assistant at the hospital who was gay, and they discussed the inevi-table problem ahead for promiscuous teens. They decided action was needed,

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Woman in the Driver’s Seat[ A LU M N A P R O F I L E ]

Kathryn F. Swanson (Skitarelic), ’69

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and began with a community address at Shawnee State University.

“We told the audience, consisting primarily of adults including community leaders, the truth about what AIDS was

and what it wasn’t,” she says. “That the greatest risk was from sexual activity and drug use and that their children were at risk. There were many not ready to accept that AIDS might invade their own lives.”

After that one encounter, she was invited to talk to students at assemblies in middle schools and high schools throughout the area, but not always to a recep-tive audience.

“There was considerable negative parental reaction,” she says. “Some schools wanted me to speak to students but not to groups of boys and girls together.” Swanson was not dissuaded by discouragement. Before accepting each engagement, she talked with the principal and health teacher, explaining the content of her message, and the candid and honest way in which it would be presented. It became the option of the schools to make the decision if they wanted her to speak. They did not have the option to change the content of her message.

There was one session in which she addressed an audience of parents and teens including a question-answer period that provoked some heated parental response. But Swanson held fast in the knowledge that young people needed factual information about AIDS.

Her efforts were rewarded one day while shopping at a convenience store. The cashier was a teenager who recognized her by saying “You’re the AIDS lady.” Swan-son agreed she was, and the teen added that Swanson’s presentation to her school had been delivered a week before prom. “I can tell you from what you told us, I made some big changes in what I was

planning to do that night,” the teen added. The mes-sage was getting across.

A member of the Allegheny region of the Porsche Club of America, Swanson travels to the Pittsburgh International race Complex, the closest Porsche track to her West Virginia home, with its 1.65-mile track and 12 turns. She also drives at Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio and Barber Motorsports Park. She calls driving a fun-filled encounter that attracts those who want to become more efficient and safer drivers with the ability to handle their cars at high speed. Drivers are paired with professional instructors who focus on technique, judgment and acquisition of skill.

“road course driving is not like nascar racing,” Swanson says. “The tracks are purpose-built courses in which we turn left and right, and go up and down hills. Drivers education is not racing, and laps are not timed. What track driving gives us is a full appreciation of the capabilities of our car and teaches us skills that can save us in emergencies on the highway.”

Until recently, Swanson, who is married with three daughters, was the only track driver in her family. However, her daughter, Freya, has attended the Porsche car control clinics and has driven the track once. That pleases her mother who looks forward to sharing the joy of her very unique pastime with her daughter.

In the meantime, the spirited woman who thor-oughly enjoys retirement, proclaims an overwhelming enthusiasm for life in the t-shirt she wore to a recent track event. Purple, with pink flowery script, it reads

“Outrageous Old Woman.” Those who know Swanson might disagree with the second adjective. Kay Swanson old? never.

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Elizabeth L. “Betty” Tso, ’79, is a native Marylander. She has been a dedicated and revered faculty member since 1983, when she was one of three pioneering physicians who founded, established and made tremendous con-tributions to the overall success of the department of emergency medicine up to the time of her retirement in May.

The department could have been very different from the one it is today. But 30 years ago, when emergency medicine was beginning to take form, Tso joined the small team of young, enthusiastic physicians at Maryland. Through her quiet confidence, com-mitment to patients, devotion to students, and compassion for the less fortunate, Tso stands as a role model for all who worked beside her and trained under her.

Tso embodies everything an emergency medicine physician should be: intelligent, sensitive, and thor-ough. From the beginning, she has been passionate about the education that medical students and residents receive at the medical school. She has advocated for excellent tutelage for first-year students, as well as for more experienced doctors perfecting their craft. She fervently believes that fac-ulty members are ideally positioned to offer invaluable guidance and leader-ship to aspiring physicians and young practitioners.

Two years ago, the department be-gan a collective effort to fund the first endowed professorship in its history to honor Tso. “Throughout her career, Betty has championed excellent care, and as a founding member of the program, she set our standards high. It is only fitting that the first endowed professorship in the department be named in her honor,” explained Brian Browne, MD, professor and chair of the department.

In May, with a generous $1.5 mil-lion gift from Maryland Emergency Medicine research Foundation, Inc. (MEMrF), the endowment was com-pleted, and The Elizabeth L. Tso, M.D. Professorship in Emergency Medicine was established. David M. Sheehan, a director of the MEMrF, shared that, “The Foundation’s generous gift was made in recognition of Dr. Tso’s distinguished career, during which she made many enduring contributions to one of the foremost departments of

emergency medicine nationally.”For the University of Maryland

to continue its leadership role in academic and scientific circles, and to be counted among the premier institutions of medical education and research in the world, it must sustain an outstanding faculty. There is no better incentive to attract and retain the best scholars, researchers, and teachers than the endowed professor-ship. More than just conferring honor, endowed professorships serve to reward and preserve our outstanding faculty by providing each member with criti-cal resources needed to sustain and expand promising research and launch innovative clinical initiatives. More-over, these talented faculty members attract and inspire the finest students, training them to become future physicians and medical professionals who will transcend the boundaries of medicine on their own.

Maryland is fortunate to have more than 60 endowed chairs and profes-sorships in various stages of comple-tion, about half of which are fully funded and held by faculty members. These highly desired positions are the hallmark of academic naming oppor-tunities because they immortalize the individual, like Tso, who is linked to the position, and also serve as a mark of distinction for the sharpest minds in medicine who are awarded them. This results in a highly visible form of recognition, both for donor and faculty member, that exists from generation to generation and in perpetuity. For more information on supporting the work of a prominent faculty member through an endowed professorship, or creating a named professorship in your name or in honor of another, please call Brian DeFilippis at 410.706.8503 or email [email protected].

Creating a Legacy: The Elizabeth L. Tso, M.D. Professorship in Emergency Medicine

Through her quiet confidence, commitment to patients, devotion to

students, and compassion for the less fortunate, Tso

stands as a role model for all who worked beside her and

trained under her.


Will may be the most vital component of an individual’s estate plan; it is important regardless of the size of one’s estate. A Will is a legal document that not only directs how owned property is to be distributed upon death, but it also provides for the designation of an estate executor who has the responsibility of carrying out one’s wishes, and in

many states, a Will is the only legal way to name a guardian for one’s minor children. Without a Will, an individual’s property is distributed according to the intestacy laws of the state of residence, which may or may not reflect one’s personal desires.

The laws of one’s state of residence govern the validity of the Will. Generally, for a Will to be deemed valid, a variety of requirements must be met including that:

1. The maker of the Will must be at least eighteen years of age and must be of sound mind, and that

2. The Will must be properly executed; this means that the Will must be a) written, b) signed and c) witnessed by two competent persons (some states require that the signatures be notarized).

In some states an oral (nuncupative) Will is generally only valid if made during an individual’s last illness and if written by the witnesses soon afterward. Also, in some states, a holographic Will (handwritten by the individual creating the Will) may be valid despite not being witnessed.

Making a Will requires some thought and planning, but it is not always a complicated process. It is important

that one seek an attorney’s advice to confirm that the Will accomplishes what is intended, especially with respect to guardianship provisions and when complex family and or financial situations of significant wealth are involved. To design property distribution plans, it is necessary to determine the manner in which each asset is owned and whether each asset has a named beneficiary. Solely owned property can be transferred by Will, but assets held

through joint tenancy, tenancy by the entirety and community property, generally will be distributed to the joint owner at one’s death. Property for which there is already a named beneficiary, for example an Individual retirement Account (IrA), will not be distributed by the terms of a Will. Once created, a Will can be amended by executing a codicil, which is a separate, written and formally executed document that becomes a part of the Will. A codicil is primarily used for making minor changes to one’s Will; if there are major changes needed, an entirely new Will can be drafted and executed. revoking a Will must be done carefully since if not done correctly, the existing Will remains valid until properly revoked or superseded by a new Will. Most states require that the Will be revoked by a subsequent instrument (a new Will).

A Will is not a static document and it should be reviewed at least annually or whenever an individual’s life situation changes. If you are in need of creating a new Will or of revising an existing Will, you would be well served by seeking guidance from a qualified attorney and wealth planning professional.

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Medicine Bulletin Summer 2014 [28 ]

Above: Sara Wozny, left, celebrates her match news with Selma Amrane.

Left: The Faculty Gold Medal winner: Jason Lee Blevins, ’13

One hundred sixty six students comprising the class of 2014 are heading to 73 different hospitals in 28 states, according to data released on Match Day cel-ebrated March 21. Fifty members will remain in the State of Maryland. The top specialty choices below closely resemble last year’s figures:

Internal Medicine 17%Pediatrics 12%Family Medicine 9%Emergency Medicine 9%Surgery 9%Psychiatry 6%OB/GYn 3%radiology 2%

Due to a growing class size and increasing numbers of family members interested in attending the match ceremony, medical school officials moved the location from Davidge Hall to the Hippodrome Theater a few blocks away. nearly 1,000 people attended this year’s event. The annual event is supported by Morton D. Kramer, ’55. Convocation and graduation were held Friday, May 16. David E. Knipp, ’14, received the faculty gold medal, and Maryland governor Martin O’Malley delivered the keynote address at the early ceremony.

2014Class of ’14 Headed to 73 Hospitals in 28 States


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Clockwise from top left: Maryland governor Martin O’Malley delivers the keynote address ❖ Faculty gold medal winner David P. Knipp, ’14 ❖ Rachel Kramer, ’97, and father Morton, ’55 ❖ Donna L. Parker, ’86, assistant dean for student affairs, congratulates C. Randall Cooper, who will be training in surgery at Columbia University ❖ Ekta Taneja announces that she’ll train at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts

A look back at America’s fifth oldest medical school and its illustrious alumni

110 Years AgoOn February 7, 1904, an explosion at the Hurst Company Building, located between Hopkins Place and Liberty Street, set off a two-day fire in the city. The flames raced through 86 streets in the downtown, destroying 1,500 buildings and 2,500 businesses. The University of Maryland campus, including its then 92-year-old medical building, survived the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.

25 Years AgoIn 1989, the plastic surgery divisions at Maryland and Johns Hopkins announced the formation of a single, shared residency training program, the first combined plastic surgery training program between two medical institutions. They came together under the leadership of Nelson H. Goldberg, class of 1973, who served as professor and chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery.

In 1819, William Zollicoffer, class of 1818, was credited with publishing a treatise on materia medica, the first of its kind in America. He later became lecturer in botany, materia medica and toxicology at Maryland.

195 Years Ago


Mission: The Medical Alumni Association of the University of Maryland, Inc., in continuous operation since 1875, is an indepen-dent charitable organization dedicated to supporting the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Davidge Hall.

Board Structure: The MAA is governed by a board consisting of five officers and nine board members. Each year more than 100 alumni participate on its seven standing committees and special anniversary class reunion committees.

Membership: Annual dues are $85. Dues are complimentary the first four years after graduation and can be extended until the graduate has completed training. Dues are waived for members reaching their 50th graduation anniversary or have turned 70 years of age. Revenues support salaries for two full-time and five part-time employees, as well as general office expenses to maintain the alumni data base, produce the quarterly Bulletin magazine, stage social events for alumni and students, administer a revolving student loan fund, and oversee conservation of Davidge Hall and maintain its museum.

Annual Fund: The association administers the annual fund on behalf of the medical school. Gift revenues support student loans and scholarships, lectureships, professorships, capital projects—including Davidge Hall conservation—plus direct support to departments for special projects and support to the dean.

The Morton M. Krieger, MD, Medical Alumni Center is located on the second floor of Davidge Hall, 522 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201-1636, telephone 410.706.7454, fax 410.706.3658, website www.medicalalumni.org, and email [email protected] M

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classnotes1954: Charles J. Hammer of Mercer Island, Wash., is

sorry to have missed the 60th reunion, but says judging by the photos he can see it went well. ❖ Marshall A. Simpson of Columbus, Ga., has been retired since October 2012 from West Central Georgia Psychiatric Hospital. He reports that all three daughters are doing well, includ-ing Pamela who recently graduated from nursing school and Lisa, who contin-ues working for 911. 1959: Gilbert N. Feinberg of Baltimore has been retired for two years and is expecting his first great grandchild in fall.

1967: Allan S. Pristoop of Baltimore recently stepped

down as chair of the department of medicine at Northwest Hospital Center after 10 years in the position.

1976: David Siscovick of Seattle was named senior

vice president for research at the New York Academy of Medicine. The professor emeritus of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle is being brought on to establish a new interdisciplinary and collaborative ap-proach to research across the academy’s priority areas of healthy aging, disease prevention and health promotion, as well as eliminating health disparities.

1979: Timothy J. Low of Silver Spring, Md., reports that his son graduated from College Park with a degree in aeronauti-cal engineering.

1983: Judith Monroe received an honorary

doctorate degree in health and human sciences from Purdue University. As deputy director for state, tribal, local, and territorial at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she led Indiana through the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and partnered with Purdue University in the design of the public health sys-tem quality improvement project to strengthen local public health capacity and performance. ❖ Robert M. Stroud of Reisterstown, Md., is a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Stroud is vice president for Advance Radiology. 1984: Phillip Pearl is director of Epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and the William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. The appointment was effective in January, and the family is still in the process of relocating from Washington to Boston. Pearl extends his congratulations to classmates on their 30th graduation anniversary. 1989: Steven R. Daviss of Baltimore is chief medical officer for M3 Information, mental health IT

company in Rockville. For nine years he served as chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Daviss reports that his son graduated from college in Sarasota this spring.

2001: Chris Grybauskas, a pediatric hospitalist in Los

Angeles, competed on the U.S. Medi-cal Soccer Team at the World Medical Football Championships in Natal, Brazil, from July 5–12. The squad of physicians from around the country shares a pas-sion for soccer, medical education and community outreach. They get together three times a year for training sessions around the country when they also do community outreach. One of their loca-tions leading up to the tournament was in Washington, D.C., in April. Grybauskas has been with the U.S. team for three years. 2007: Matthew Dunn of Flag-staff, Ariz., was named the Nate Avery 2014 Physician of the Year. Dunn is an in-ternist at Flagstaff Medical Center where he established a pediatric hospitalist program. The award is given annually in honor of a pediatric neurosurgeon who died tragically two years ago. Recipients are selected by a panel of past winners who consider nominations from the larger medical community. Dunn and wife Diana have four children.

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in memoriam

Frederick B. Brandt, ’43D General Surgery Towson, Md. April 27, 2014

Dr. Brandt practiced surgery and was a clinical professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine. He was recipient of teaching awards by the department of surgery at the Washington Hospital Center. Appointments included president of the Jacobi Medical Society and the Washington Academy of Surgery. Brandt was preceded in death by wife Annette and is survived by two daughters, two sons including Harry, ’83 and his wife Joanna, ’85, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

John R. Gamble Jr., ’46 Surgery Lincoln, N.C. June 2, 2014

Upon graduation, Dr. Gamble trained at Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Roanoke General Hospital, returning to his hometown of Lincoln, N.C., in 1948 to practice medicine at Reeves Gamble Hospital. He was called to serve in the U.S. Army in 1954, serving as a MASH surgeon in both Korea and Japan. Gamble returned to Lincoln in 1956 where, in addition to his practice, served on the county’s board of commission-ers as well as the state legislature. In this capacity he was a force behind the opening of East Carolina University’s medical school. Honors included man of the year in Lincoln County. Gamble enjoyed fishing, gardening, and raising cattle on his farm. Survivors include three children and two grandchildren.

Joseph M. Rogers, ’47 Family & Emergency Medicine Hamilton, Va. March 8, 2014

Dr. Rogers practiced family medicine in Loudoun, Va., serving as chief of staff at Loudoun Memorial Hospital. He later

became chief of emergency medicine there, as well as director of the Loudoun Healthcare Foundation. In addition to practicing medicine, Rogers was a farmer, businessman, rural land con-servationist, philanthropist and expert horseman. He was instrumental in the creation of the Goose Creek Historic District, consisting of several thousand acres of permanently preserved rural land, and he put more than 900 acres of his own farm in preservation ease-ments. He was a steeplechase jockey who won the Virginia Gold Cup three times. On his farm he bred Angus cattle, produced hay and other crops, devel-oped his racing stock and tended to fox hounds. Survivors include wife Donna, two daughters, one son and one grand-daughter.

William R. Cowen, ’50 Psychiatry Baltimore April 5, 2014

Wayne County Hospital in Detroit was the site of Dr. Cowen’s internship, before returning to Baltimore for residency training at Spring Grove Hospital. He practiced psychiatry and enjoyed teaching. Cowen was an avid writer who penned scores of essays and poems. He also enjoyed tennis. Survivors include wife Miriam, three step-children, three step-grandchildren and three step-great- grandchildren.

Hunter S. Neal, ’50 General Surgery Simsbury, Conn. February 23, 2014

Prior to medical school, Dr. Neal joined the U.S. Army during World War II and served with the Medical Corps and Merchant Marines where he twice cir-cumnavigated the world. He joined his medical school class during sophomore year. After graduation, Neal interned at Reading Hospital in Pennsylvania and received residency training in

general surgery at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. He later served a fel-lowship at Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit. Neal joined a surgical partner-ship and served as surgeon for the Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey team. Appointments included president of the Delaware County Medical Society and chief and chairman of general surgery at Lankenau Hospital. During the 1970s, he co-authored a series of papers in the Journal of American Medicine result-ing in the feasibility of the fine-needle biopsy method of cancer detection that gained widespread use. He retired in 1993 but continued to teach and work on an investigational review board for clinical trials. Neal was a founder of the Katahdin Medical and Philosophical Society, whose domestic and interna-tional medical symposia were staged near parks featuring hiking and fishing. In 2008, he moved to Simsbury to be near family. Survivors include two children and four grandchildren.

Eugene B. Rex, ’51 Otolaryngology Winter Park, Fla. April 5, 2014

Prior to medical school, Dr. Rex served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant with the 112th regiment, 28th infantry. He was awarded the bronze star, presi-dential unit citation and five campaign stars for his service which included participating in the Battle of the Bulge. Upon medical school graduation, he interned and received residency train-ing at Maryland, followed by additional training at the Graduate Hospital and Children’s Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania. Rex set up practice in suburban Philadelphia and enjoyed appointments including chief of the department of otolaryngology at Lankenau Hospital and associate profes-sor of the department of otolaryngology at Jefferson Medical School. In 1985, he received the distinguished service award from the Pennsylvania Academy


of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and was named otolaryngologist of the year. Rex was a Mason and avid golfer. He was preceded in death by wife Julie and is survived by two children and three grandchildren.

Irvin Hyatt, ’52 Gastroenterology Baltimore April 6, 2014

Upon graduation, Dr. Hyatt interned at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. He returned to Baltimore and Sinai Hospital

for residency which later included the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital. A fellowship in GI and radiol-ogy followed at Sinai in 1956. Hyatt served as chief of medicine at Northwest Hospital Center and also held a faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins. Survivors include wife Judith, four children and ten grandchildren.

Balk C. Troutman, ’52 General Practice Grifton, N.C. January 14, 2014

Prior to medical school, Dr. Troutman was inducted into the U.S. Army, serving in the Pacific Theater as a technical ser-geant during World War II. He attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for his first two years of medical school before transferring to Maryland. Upon graduation, Troutman trained

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On-line Classroom Lectures for AlumniDues-paying members of the Medical Alumni Association are invited to view On-line Classroom Lectures. These include many of the first- and second-year presentations available to students as taught from Taylor Lecture Hall in the Bressler Laboratory, as well as recordings of grand rounds. In addition, the MAA Annual Historical Clinicopathological Conferences and a few historical lectures by Theodore E. Woodward, ’38 are available for viewing. Enrich your education by visiting the MAA website and registering today: www.medicalalumni.org.

Recent additions to the offerings ☛

21st Clinicopathological Conference: Eleanor RooseveltFormer First Lady’s End of Life Issues Examined


at James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, N.C., before moving to Grifton in 1953 and remained there until retirement from private practice in 1988. From 1999 until 2008, Troutman worked as a medical examiner for the Veterans Administration and Social Security Administration in Kinston and New Bern. He also served as town com-missioner and a trustee for First Citizens Bank. He enjoyed the outdoors and was a loyal Tarheels fan. Troutman was preceded in death by wife Vera and an infant daughter and is survived by two daughters, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Gerald F. Nangle, ’54 General Practice Dayton, Ohio March 30, 2014

Dr. Nangle served in the U.S. Navy for two years after high school and worked as a biochemist for another two after college and prior to medical school. He practiced in the Dayton area for more than 42 years. Nangle was a silver life master bridge player who enjoyed sail-ing, golf and reading. He was a fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes and University of Dayton Flyers. Preceded in death by wife Beverly, ’54, Nangle is survived by Nita Jennings, his companion for more than 20 years, five daughters, eight grandchil-dren and two great-grandchildren.

George H. Wall, ’54 Pediatrics Baltimore April 18, 2014

Dr. Wall practiced pediatrics with privileges at Mercy Medical Center, Franklin Square Hospital, Sinai Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, and GBMC. He also had a teaching appointment at Johns Hopkins. Wall enjoyed the challenges of keeping up with all the advances in tech-nology, and he also liked taking cruises and trips to casinos. Survivors include wife Beverly, one son, one daughter and two grandchildren.

Stuart H. Brager, ’58 Internal Medicine & Endocrinology Baltimore May 1, 2014

Internship, residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in endocrinol-ogy were performed at Maryland. From 1963 until retirement from full-time prac-tice in 2001, Brager practiced privately with appointments as chief of medicine at Franklin Square Hospital and chief of rehabilitation medicine at Maryland General Hospital. He was a member of the Elm Society of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, the school’s society for major donors. Brager enjoyed wine, and for a considerable period served on the Baltimore Center Club’s wine committee. He also liked music, arts and theater. Survivors include wife Marlene, three children and seven grandchildren. Brager was preceded in death by daughter Cheryl.

Jay N. Karpa, ’58 General Surgery Pikesville, Md. June 6, 2014

Sinai Hospital in Baltimore was the site of Dr. Karpa’s training. He prac-ticed privately, and from 2004 to 2008 was medical director for the wound care and hyperbaric medicine pro-gram at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown. Survivors include wife Elizabeth, one daughter, two sons including Michael, ’90, and eight grand-children.

Jeremy V. Cooke, ’60 Hematology Kensington, Md. May 15, 2014

Dr. Cooke practiced in Kensington, Md., for more than 40 years. Survivors include, two children and one grand-child.

in memoriam

Janet E. Mules, ’63 Psychiatry Kirkland, Wash. March 19, 2014

Dr. Mules received training at Duke University, the University of Washington, Maryland, and she also attended Johns Hopkins University for an MPH in 1968. She practiced in Seattle and Denver before spending 11 years in the Foreign Service with the U.S. Department of State with assignments in South Africa, Mexico, India, and Austria. Mules was called back to Africa for special services after the U.S. Embassy bombings in 1988. She returned to private practice in Anchorage, Alaska, from 2000 to 2005 and afterwards was self-employed. She was a member of the Silver Circle of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, the medical school’s society for major donors. Mules enjoyed reading, classical music and the opera. Survivors include four step- children and three step-grandchildren.

Henry H. Bohlman, ’64 Orthopaedic Surgery Shaker Heights, Ohio May 26, 2010

After internship and one year of residency training in general surgery at Maryland, Dr. Bohlman attended Johns Hopkins for orthopaedic residency training followed by a fellowship where he carried out NIH-sponsored research on the pathology of fatal cranio-spinal injuries. He spent two years in the U.S. Air Force before joining University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1972 as an instructor in orthopaedic surgery. Bohlman quickly rose to the rank of professor, heading the hospital’s recon-structive and traumatic spine surgery center, then of its spine institute, and directing its fellowship program. He also worked at Highland View Hospital, Metro General Hospital and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in


Cleveland. Bohlman popularized spinal surgeries through the front of the body, and his innovations revived surpris-ing degrees of movement in paralyzed limbs. He was widely published and had clients from around the world, including a Saudi Arabian king and professional athletes including Cal Ripkin Jr. In 2008, he became the first holder of the Henry H. Bohlman MD Chair in Spine Surgery, an endowed position funded by protégés and grateful patients. He was a member of three groups that celebrated wine, and he often traveled to vineyards in France and Italy. Bohlman was a member of the Winous Point Shooting Club, Ducks Unlimited, Cleveland Skating Club, and Tavern Club. Survivors include wife Amanda, one son and one daughter.

Robert L. Gingell, ’64 Pediatric Cardiology Amherst, N.Y. March 11, 2014

Dr. Gingell interned at Maryland before serving three years at the Naval Ordnance Test Station in China Lake, Calif., with the U.S. Naval Reserve. He returned to Maryland for residency training, followed by a pediatric cardiol-ogy fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Gingell was an assistant professor in pediatrics at Maryland for one year before receiv-ing a faculty appointment as associate professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1979 to 2000, he directed the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo where he computerized the lab and wrote its original computer program. Gingell also oversaw the cardiac program for the Williams Syndrome Clinic. He served as the pediatric cardiologist at WCA Hospital in Jamestown for 26 years and practiced privately with Pediatric Cardiology Associates. Survivors include wife Marjorie, three daughters, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Harold A. Burnham, ’66 Family Medicine Glen Cove, N.Y. May 18, 2014

Dr. Burnham was an 11th generation Mayflower descendant who served in the Army Medical Corps and CIA in Paris before attending medical school. Upon graduation, he received training at Glen Cove Community Hospital in New York where he began a private practice. He later became senior executive vice president of international and domestic medical affairs in the pharmaceutical industry for Glenbrook Laboratories and Sterling Drug. Burnham returned to medicine afterwards, accepting a number of appointments including clinician in medicine with the Nassau County Public Health Department, medical director at the United Presbyterian Residence in Woodbury, campus medical doctor at the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and at the VA hospital in Stony Brook. He also held a variety of clinical teaching appointments with Stony Brook University School of Medicine and spent considerable time with Doctors Without Borders at the Shoshone Indian Nation in Elko, Nevada and Oneida Indian Nation in New York. A promoter of Scottish culture and master of the Highland bagpipes, Burnham was honored as Clan McDuff Honorary Chieftain in 2004 and served as a trustee of the Clan Gordon Highlanders Pipe Band in Locust Valley. Survivors include wife Minou, two children and two grandchildren.

Larry T. Ingle, ’66 Surgery Anchorage, Alaska March 10, 2014

Dr. Ingle completed training with the U.S. Navy and served time in Vietnam. He spent his career with the U.S. Public Health Service at the Alaska Native

Medical Center, and after retirement in 1993 continued working part time at several urgent care clinics in Anchorage. He and wife Catherine had a second home in Rochester, Minnesota, where they spent considerable time. Ingle was a member of the Elm Society of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, Maryland’s society for major donors. In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, three sons including Steven, ’02, and six grandchildren.

John W. Wilson, ’69 Internal & Emergency Medicine Olympia, Wash. May 13, 2014

Prior to medical school, Dr. Wilson grad-uated from Maryland’s pharmacy school in 1963. After graduation and training, he practiced internal and emergency medi-cine in Reno, Nevada, and St. George, Utah until 2000. He enjoyed photog-raphy, reading and writing, fine dining, skiing and travel. Survivors include two sons, two step-children, four grandchil-dren and two former wives.

Lawrence Blumberg, ’71 Orthopaedic Surgery Aventura, Fla. April 11, 2014

Dr. Blumberg received training at Maryland and prior to moving to Florida served on the faculty here, as well as serving on the staffs of Franklin Square, Good Samaritan, Mercy, and Maryland General Hospitals. He held the rank of captain in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. Survivors include wife Sharon, two sons, one daughter and one grandson.

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